"Everyone was somebody’s cousin, or uncle, or bedmate, or best college friend. Sometimes he felt that the whole of Washington was glued together into one vast, incestuous, and inefficient snotball."
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Charles Sheffield, The Double Spiral Staircase in Dancing with Myself (1993), , p. 180
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